Dean Foods
Healthy Foods, Healthy Families.
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| Traded as | : DF S&P 400 Component |
| Industry | Food processing |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Headquarters | Tower at Cityplace Dallas, Texas |
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Key people
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Gregg A. Tanner CEO & Chairman of the Board Shaun Mara Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Gregg Tanner President of Fresh Dairy Direct and Chief Supply Chain Officer |
| Products | Milk, Dairy Products |
| Revenue |
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 $ 427.79 million (FY 2011)
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$ 161.04 million (FY 2012)
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| Total assets |
 $ 5.687 billion (FY 2012)
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| Total equity |
$ 357.19 million (FY 2012)
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Number of employees
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21,915 (December 2012) |
| Website | www.deanfoods.com |
$ 11.462 billion (FY 2012)
Dean Foods is an American food and beverage company that specializes in dairy products. The company maintains plants and distributors in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dean Foods has 100 facilities located in 35 American states as well as five manufacturing plants in the countries of Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Dean Foods was founded by Samuel E. Dean, Sr., who owned an evaporated milk processing facility in Franklin Park, Illinois, in the 1920s. After purchasing other Illinois dairy plants Dean developed the enterprise "from a small regional dairy into a diversified food company".
In December 2001, the legacy brand of Dean Foods was acquired by the Dallas-based Suiza Foods Corporation, who later adopted the Dean Foods name. In 2005, Dean Specialty Foods was spun off from Dean Foods as Bay Valley Foods, LLC, a division of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. In June 2005 TreeHouse Foods started trading on the with a ticker of THS.
In March 2005 the Cornucopia Institute filed a complaint with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) alleging that their Horizon Organic subsidiary was violating "organic livestock management" standards.
In August 2006, Dean Foods acquired Jilbert's Dairy, a 70-year-old family business near Marquette, Michigan. Dean Food's TofuTown brand was acquired by the Hain Celestial Group in June 2007. In December, Dean Foods bought the Wells Dairy milk plant in Le Mars, Iowa. Dean Foods purchased Alpro in 2009 for an estimated US$455 million, making it a "global leader in soy beverages". This resulted in a restructuring of the company that included selling off a number of subsidiaries, including Rachel's Organic.
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